"and the crowd clapped along. The director signaled the crew to record, which is why there is such an abrupt start to the song mid-verse. Clapton was so pleased with it that when the song ended, he asked the director, ""did you get that?"" Clapton played Martin 000-42 acoustic guitars for much of the performance, and in 2004, one of the guitars sold for $791,500 (£434,400) in auction. The album was released on 25 August 1992 to some of the best reviews of his career. The album renewed the public's interest in Clapton, and boosted his popularity. Critical reception has"
"noting that ""20th Century Masters is essentially a revised Time Pieces, both running 11 tracks, nine of which are shared between the two records"" (that being ""Bell Bottom Blues"" and ""Let It Rain"" replacing ""Willie and the Hand Jive"" and ""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"", respectively). He finishes his review by rating the album with 4.5 of possible 5 stars. 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric Clapton 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric Clapton is a compilation album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. It was released on June 15,"
"Clapton (2010 album) Clapton is the eighteenth solo studio album by English rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Eric Clapton. It was released on 27 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. The album is Clapton's first studio album in four years following his duet with J.J. Cale in ""The Road to Escondido"" (2006), and is made up of a mix of new material and cover songs. Clapton has played tracks off this album such as ""Rocking Chair"" and ""When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful"" live on tour. Clapton has said, ""This album wasn’t what it"
"20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric Clapton 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Eric Clapton is a compilation album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. It was released on June 15, 2004 through Polydor Records and is part of Universal's ""20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection"" series. The compilation album features eleven tracks that Clapton recorded in the 1970s both as a solo artists as well as with Derek and the Dominos. Glyn Johns produced the album in association with Tom Dowd. Although the release sold 1,366,610 copies in"
"Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album) Behind the Sun is the ninth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released by Duck Records / Warner Bros.. It is Clapton's first collaborative project with Phil Collins who co-produces and plays on some of the tracks. While recording the album Clapton temporarily split with his wife. The title of the album comes from a line from Muddy Waters's ""Louisiana Blues"". After nearly a decade of Clapton's guitar playing taking a back seat to his singing/songwriting, this album contains several guitar solos. The album includes synthesizers and drum machines played by Phil Collins, Ted"
"that helps drug addicts kick their habit and rehabilitate themselves. In November 2012, a remastered two-compact-disc 35th anniversary deluxe edition of ""Slowhand"" was released. The first disc consists of the remastered album, with additional bonus tracks and studio jam sessions. The second disc features a previously unreleased live concert, recorded in April 1977 at the Hammersmith Odeon; although the concert is of the same era as the ""Slowhand"" sessions, it was performed prior to the album's recording and release, and so does not include any of the album's tracks. Slowhand Slowhand is the fifth solo studio album by Eric Clapton."
"One More Car, One More Rider One More Car, One More Rider is the eighth live album by Eric Clapton, released on 5 November 2002 on Duck / Reprise Records. It is also the third double live album. The album contains songs performed during Clapton's 2001 world tour. The recordings on this album are from two nights at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 18 & 19 August 2001. Accompanying Clapton on this album are Andy Fairweather-Low, Steve Gadd, Nathan East, Billy Preston, Greg Phillinganes, and David Sancious. Eric Clapton himself said that this would be his last world tour,"
"also included the song ""Let It Grow"" from ""461 Ocean Boulevard"". Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by British musician Eric Clapton. The album was originally released by RSO/Polydor Records in April 1982 (see 1982 in music). The following year a second volume, ""Time Pieces Vol.II Live in the Seventies"", was released by the label. The album has been reissued several times and has been awarded certifications in several regions. ""Billboard"" reported, the album sold more than 13,400,000 copies worldwide. In 1982, Eric Clapton left RSO and Polydor to"
"Just One Night (Eric Clapton album) Just One Night is a 1980 double album by Eric Clapton, recorded live at the Budokan Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, December 1979 when Clapton was touring to support ""Backless"", his latest record at that time. The sleeve contains a Japanese painting by Ken Konno. The album reached No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 3 in the UK, and was certified gold by RIAA. Critical reaction to the album has been largely positive. At the time of release Robert Christgau said the album contained ""AM and FM faves"" which were ""served hot, raw, or both""."
"an album released in July 1970. After a lengthy career hiatus kicking a heroin addiction he returned to the studio to record the album, 461 Ocean Boulevard, released July 1974. Following six more solo albums Clapton released two solo albums with Phil Collins in the 1980s. Clapton also briefly formed a four-man band which recorded two concert videos ""Eric Clapton Live from Montreux"" and ""Eric Clapton and Friends"". Clapton won two Grammy's at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards for his single 'Tears in Heaven' and for his Unplugged album. In 1999 a compilation album about Eric Clapton, , was released."
"a difficult period for Harrison: he had quit the band temporarily, he was arrested for marijuana possession, and he had his tonsils removed. Harrison states in his autobiography, ""I, Me, Mine"": As Clapton states in his autobiography, the house in question, in Ewhurst, Surrey, is known as Hurtwood Edge. When interviewed in the Martin Scorsese documentary """", Clapton said he believed the month was April. Data from two meteorological stations in the London area show that April 1969 set a record for sunlight hours for the 1960s. The Greenwich station recorded 189 hours for April, a high that was not"
"hits ""Forever Man"" and ""She's Waiting"", and 1986's ""August"". ""August"" was suffused with Collins's trademark drum and horn sound, and became Clapton's biggest seller in the UK to date, matching his highest chart position, number 3. The album's first track, the hit ""It's in the Way That You Use It"", was featured in the Tom Cruise – Paul Newman movie ""The Color of Money."" The horn-peppered ""Run"" echoed Collins' ""Sussudio"" and other work, while ""Tearing Us Apart"" (with Tina Turner) and ""Miss You"" continued Clapton's more angry sound. This rebound kicked off Clapton's two-year period of touring with Collins and"
"The Cream of Eric Clapton The Cream of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by English guitar player Eric Clapton. It includes work from two of his bands, Cream, and Derek and the Dominos as well as his solo work. It was released in 1987 in the UK. It should not be confused with the 1994/95 compilations ""The Cream of Clapton"". In 1989 a Polygram released a video compilation, under the same title and using similar artwork. The Japanese compilation of that title has a slightly different track listing, it includes the full version of ""After Midnight"", which was"
"Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton Timepieces: The Best of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by British musician Eric Clapton. The album was originally released by RSO/Polydor Records in April 1982 (see 1982 in music). The following year a second volume, ""Time Pieces Vol.II Live in the Seventies"", was released by the label. The album has been reissued several times and has been awarded certifications in several regions. ""Billboard"" reported, the album sold more than 13,400,000 copies worldwide. In 1982, Eric Clapton left RSO and Polydor to form his own label, Duck Records, with distribution through Warner Bros."
"Pilgrim (Eric Clapton album) Pilgrim is the thirteenth solo studio album by the British rock musician Eric Clapton, released on March 10, 1998 for Reprise Records. The album features all-new studio-recorded material since Clapton's 1989 hit album ""Journeyman"" and was nominated for several music awards. Although most of the critics responded negatively to the 1998 studio effort, it was one of Clapton's most commercially successful albums, reaching the Top 10 in twenty-two countries, selling more than 4,500,000 copies worldwide. The album was recorded from 1996 to 1997 in both Ocean Way and the Olympic Studios. The release of ""Pilgrim"" marked"
"Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster The Fender Eric Clapton Stratocaster is the signature model electric guitar of English guitarist Eric Clapton. It was the first signature model guitar released by Fender. Eric Clapton played a range of different Fender and Gibson models while playing in The Yardbirds and Cream. In 1970, for his landmark ""Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs"" with Derek and the Dominos, Clapton started using a sunburst 1956 Stratocaster which he later nicknamed ""Brownie"" that he had bought in May 1967 while in Cream. While on tour with the Dominos, Clapton visited Sho-Bud Music in Nashville where he"
"Journeyman (album) Journeyman is the eleventh solo studio album by Eric Clapton. Heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction and had recently found sobriety, the album has a 1980s electronic sound, but it also includes blues songs like ""Before You Accuse Me"", ""Running on Faith"", and ""Hard Times."" ""Bad Love"" was released as a single, reaching the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart, and being awarded a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1990. ""Pretending"" had also reached the No. 1 position on the Album Rock Chart the"
"Planes, Trains and Eric Planes, Trains and Eric is a documentary film about Eric Clapton's Mid and Far East Tour, which the British rock musician held in 2014. The recording provides a mixture of interviews, backstage footage and live concert performances by Clapton and his band as they travel through Japan, Singapore, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. A second, alternative release title goes by the name of Planes, Trains and Eric: The Music, The Stories, The People – Mid and Far East Tour 2014. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray disc on November 4, 2014. When Clapton announced"
"Complete Clapton Complete Clapton is a greatest hits collection by British rock musician Eric Clapton, released on 9 October 2007 to accompany Clapton's official autobiography. The two-disc collection was released on 9 October 2007 to accompany Eric Clapton's official autobiography, ""Clapton: The Autobiography"", released that same year (see also 2007 in music). An exclusive edition sold through Barnes & Noble bookstores in the United States included a bonus compact disc with four additional tracks. As with The Rolling Stones' ""Forty Licks"", each disc has been compiled by different record companies: disc one, virtually identical to ""The Cream of Clapton"" by"
"re-recorded in 1987 and released as a single in 1988. The Cream of Eric Clapton The Cream of Eric Clapton is a greatest hits album by English guitar player Eric Clapton. It includes work from two of his bands, Cream, and Derek and the Dominos as well as his solo work. It was released in 1987 in the UK. It should not be confused with the 1994/95 compilations ""The Cream of Clapton"". In 1989 a Polygram released a video compilation, under the same title and using similar artwork. The Japanese compilation of that title has a slightly different track listing,"
"Me and Mr. Johnson Me and Mr. Johnson is the fifteenth solo studio album recorded by Eric Clapton consisting of covers of songs written and originally recorded by Robert Johnson. Released in March 2004 by Reprise Records, with the cover painted by Sir Peter Blake, using a series of photographs of Clapton. Clapton had planned to record an album of new material, but by the time of the recording sessions there were not enough new songs written, so the band instead recorded a series of Johnson songs. ""Me and Mr. Johnson"" sold more than two million albums worldwide and reached"
"Eric Clapton at His Best Eric Clapton at His Best is a two-LP compilation of Eric Clapton's early solo work, released in September 1972. It was concurrently released with a two-LP compilation of Clapton's earlier band Cream, ""Heavy Cream"", along with ""at His Best"" solo retrospectives by Cream's other members Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Although available in other territories as well, ""Eric Clapton at His Best"" was largely released to address the North American market, in order for Polydor Records to leverage Clapton's back catalog as, prior to 1972, Polydor had licensed Clapton's recordings to Atco/Atlantic Records for North"
"Eric Clapton and Gene Chandler. The title song, a reggae blues version of Bob Dylan's ""Knockin' on Heaven's Door"" was released as a single in July 1975, a week before Eric Clapton released his own interpretation of Louis's arrangement, of the same song. Louis's release received attention but was over shadowed by Clapton's, which featured Louis's ""Someone Like You"" as the B-side. Louis's album Knocking on Heaven's Door, eventually climbed to #6 in International charts. In 1991 the German record label Discovery Sounds licensed and re-mastered his debut album, Knockin' on heaven's door and the subsequent release revived interest in"
"Fame on 29 August. Clapton's portrait by Alexander McKenzie was a finalist in the 2009 Archibald Prize. In October 2010, ""Goodbye Tiger"" was listed at No. 15 in the book, ""100 Best Australian Albums"". In August 2012 Clapton's first studio album in eight years, ""Harlequin Nights"", was issued on his own label and distributed by MGM. He was assisted on the album by Danny Spencer on guitar, who also co-wrote some tracks. ""The Australian""s reviewer noted that Clapton ""hasn't lost his touch as a songwriter"" as the album ""veers between the heady optimism of opening track 'Sunny Side Up' and"
"schizophrenic"" due to the tinkering of the record label, Warner Bros., who were concerned that the original version of the album contained no hits, and was too downbeat, so brought in new writers and producers. Ruhlman concludes that despite some effective guitar work the album is competent rather than exciting, and is not among Clapton's best. Some tracks were recorded for the album, but not included. Behind the Sun (Eric Clapton album) Behind the Sun is the ninth solo studio album by Eric Clapton, released by Duck Records / Warner Bros.. It is Clapton's first collaborative project with Phil Collins"
"Eric Clapton. ""Comin' Home"" reached number 84 on the US pop singles chart, although it achieved a peak of sixteen on the UK Singles Chart. In August 1970, the live album ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"" by Joe Cocker was released, using performances of the song under the title ""Superstar,"" recorded in March and June of that year. The ""Mad Dogs"" album became a hit, reaching number 2 on the ""Billboard"" pop albums chart and number 23 on the Billboard Black Albums chart. Bette Midler's recording of the song appeared on her 1972 debut album, ""The Divine Miss M"". In 1970,"
"live in the studio. This special package also featured four exclusive guitar picks which display ""Back Home"" and Clapton's signature on them. The picks came in violet, blue, red and grey. Alan Douglas and Mick Guzauski (engineer) won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for the album. ""Back Home"" was the first studio album released since the death of his good friend, George Harrison in November 2001. The previous studio album being entirely composed of songs by Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton covered the George Harrison song ""Love Comes to Everyone"" from his 1979 self-titled album as tribute"
"James) 6. Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) 7. Five Long Years (Eddie Boyd) 8. Tearing Us Apart (Eric Clapton, Greg Phillinganes) 9. Old Love (Eric Clapton, Robert Cray) 10. I'm Tore Down (Freddie King) 11. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Billy Myles) 12. White Room (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 13. Every Day I Have The Blues (T-Bone Walker) 14. Holy Mother (Eric Clapton, Stephen Bishop) The VHS release omits ""Hoochie Coochie Man"" and ""It Hurts Me Too"". Live in Hyde Park (Eric Clapton album) Live In Hyde Park is concert film recorded by blues-rock guitarist Eric Clapton on 29 June"
"Backtrackin' Backtrackin' is a 2 disc compilation album by Eric Clapton spanning the years 1966 to 1980. It was released in 1984. The compilation contains all of Clapton's best known songs with Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, and his solo 1970s work through his 1980 live album ""Just One Night"". This compilation album is made in Germany and is only available in the United States as an import. It was originally released by Starblend Records, Ltd., and has since been issued by Polydor Records. This 2 CD compilation is currently out of print in some markets while still"
"other records."" The review also noted that the performance was an ensemble effort, and was as much a showcase for Steve Winwood as it was for Clapton. Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert is a live album by Eric Clapton, recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 13 January 1973 and released in September that year. The concerts, two on the same evening, were organised by Pete Townshend of the Who and marked a comeback by Clapton after two years of inactivity, broken only by his performance at the Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971. Along with"
"previous year, remaining at the top for five weeks (""Bad Love"" had only stayed for three weeks). While the album was only a moderate commercial success at the time, reaching number 16 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, it went on to become his first solo studio album to go double platinum. Clapton has stated that ""Journeyman"" is one of his favourite albums. Side One Side Two Journeyman (album) Journeyman is the eleventh solo studio album by Eric Clapton. Heralded as a return to form for Clapton, who had struggled with alcohol addiction and had recently found sobriety, the album has"
"461 Ocean Boulevard 461 Ocean Boulevard is the second solo studio album by Eric Clapton that marked his return to recording after recovering from a three-year addiction to heroin. The album was released in late July 1974 for RSO Records, shortly after the record company released the hit single ""I Shot the Sheriff"" in early July the same year. The album topped various international charts and sold more than two million copies. The album title refers to the address on Ocean Boulevard in Golden Beach, Florida where Clapton lived while recording the album. The street address of the house was"
"on chart. It was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In Scotland, the album peaked at number 22. Overall, the album reached number two on the European albums chart in 2001. Reptile (album) </ref> Reptile is the fourteenth solo studio album by Eric Clapton. The album was produced by Eric Clapton with Simon Climie and is Clapton's first album to include keyboard work by Billy Preston and background vocals by the Impressions. The album reached the Top 10 in 20 countries, topping the national album charts in three of them. In total, the album sold more than 2.5"